memory exhausted -- trying to return to prompt

[John W. Eaton]

On 16-Mar-2000, Daniel Heiserer <address@hidden> wrote:

| Hi,
| I cannot allocate the memory I want:
| (I already had a similar problem before)
| 
| octave:73> 12350000*8/1e6
| ans = 98.8000000000000
| octave:74> 100*1e6/8
| ans = 12500000
| octave:75> clear;a=zeros(1.24E7,1);
| error: memory exhausted -- trying to return to prompt
| 
| octave:75> clear;a=zeros(1.235E7,1);
| octave:76> version
| ans = 2.0.14
| octave:77> 
| 
| For me it looks like that octave cannot allocte
| more memory then 100MB. (?)
| Can anybody check this on other machines?
| My machine is a:
| ---------------------------------------
| Processor 15: 250 MHZ IP27 
| Main memory size: 16384 Mbytes
| Instruction cache size: 32 Kbytes
| Data cache size: 32 Kbytes
| IRIX64 6.5  IP27
| ---------------------------------------

I have no trouble allocating this much memory for one variable on a
system that only has 128MB of real memory:

  GNU Octave, version 2.0.16 (i686-pc-linux-gnu).
  Copyright (C) 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000 John W. Eaton.
  This is free software with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
  For details, type `warranty'.

  octave:1> a=zeros(1.24E7,1);
  octave:2> size (a)
  ans =

    12400000         1


What are your process limits?
 
jwe



-----------------------------------------------------------------------
Octave is freely available under the terms of the GNU GPL.

Octave's home on the web:  http://www.che.wisc.edu/octave/octave.html
How to fund new projects:  http://www.che.wisc.edu/octave/funding.html
Subscription information:  http://www.che.wisc.edu/octave/archive.html
-----------------------------------------------------------------------